An excellent film-like, natural image (after color correction) Very good menus Extremely quiet Large but attractive Excellent black levels...Out of the box color needs work (definitely at minimum an end user calibration disk, like AVIA) ...Over that long wait, I've seen the Sony VW50 - also known as the Sony Pearl - a number of times at shows, and have...

Relatively inexpensive for a 1080p projector; solid color decoding; reasonably bright; resolves every detail of 1080 resolution sources; highly adjustable...Less than perfect gamma, poor primary and secondary color accuracy....Standard-definition cable looked pretty good on channels, such as CNN, that do a reasonably good job delivering the broadcast, but it didn't look so good on some of the heavily...

Standard setting blacks and contrast Smooth, naturally detailed three-chip image Excellent feature set and usability Standard setting value in front...Slightly softer image than the single-chip 1080p DLPs we've seen...With grayscale tracking, the Pearl was a dream...Switching up to component video, the 1080i bursts were even softer still at the top frequencies, with less distinctive line structure...On

Standard-definition cable looked pretty good on channels, such as CNN, that do a reasonably good job delivering the broadcast, but it didn't look so good on some of the heavily compressed analog channels...The Ruby's panel alignment was so bad that in some cases it looked like a misconverged CRT projector, with fringes of colors visible along some white lines...Seabiscuit , one of the best HD DVD transfers...